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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]
The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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One of the features of the oral Russian speech of bilingual speakers of the indigenous languages of Russia is the omission/the overuse of the “reflexive” affix -sja (a “middle voice” marker with a wide range of uses including ...
Irina Khomchenkova +2 more
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The Relationship between Turkic and Mongolian and Errors in Detection of Turkic and Mongolian Loan Words in Persian [PDF]
In the past two centuries, the connection between languages has attracted the attention of researchers. Linguists have classified most world languages as large language families. Among these families, we can mention the Semitic, Indo-European, Dravidian,
Mehdi Rezaei
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Symmetric and asymmetric alternations in direct object encoding [PDF]
This paper examines two different strategies found in direct object encoding on the basis of a sample of 159 languages. In particular, this paper deals with the differences between symmetric (i.e.
Iemmolo, Giorgio
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Prehistoric Bantu-Khoisan language contact [PDF]
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Bostoen, Koen +3 more
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Reduplication in languages: A case study of languages of China [PDF]
International audienceReduplication is widely attested in human languages, especially in the southern hemisphere. This distribution, often complementary with plural markings, is also found in languages spoken in China, which show a correlation between ...
Xu, Dan
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Synchrony, diachrony and Greenberg's state-process model: From the viewpoint of typological characterization [PDF]
After a brief survey of the history of diachronic typology, the author focuses his attention on the typological methods applied to historical comparative linguistics.
Desző Lásló
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The analysis of Yakut personal names is made to reveal the peculiarities of ethnic world view basing on the works of turkologist Nikolay Klimovich Antonov.
Egor Revolevich Nikolaev
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Ethnic Contacts People of Siberia and China in Ancient Times
Ethnic contacts between the peoples of China and Siberia had an impact on the formation of cultural characteristics of these regions since ancient times.
E B Barinova
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Lost and found in translation: the case of alliteration [PDF]
The paper examines the transmission of alliteration in Estonian and Russian translated verse. The main focus is on the translation of alliterative epic, on the one hand, and more recent literary alliteration, on the other hand.
Lotman, Maria-Kristiina, Lotman, Mihhail
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